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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, with his hand to his head, talks during a news conference before the Yankees played the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game at US Cellular Field in Chicago. The owner of a now-defunct Florida clinic was charged Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, with conspiracy to distribute steroids, more than a year after he was accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and other players. Federal court records show Anthony Bosch is charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute testosterone. (AP Photo/Charles Cherney, File)
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The stretch run to the playoffs is underway. Trade deadline acquisitions, injuries and late-season call-ups will all have an amplified impact on their teams chances of making a run through the playoffs.

Here's those midweek headlines from around the league as well as the latest Biogenesis news:

Biogenesis arrests make waves

Embattled Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch surrendered to federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents Tuesday and was arrested along with six others with ties to Biogenesis.

"There probably are going to be a bunch of guys who are worried now that the feds are involved,'' Kirk Radomski, the former New York Mets clubhouse attendant, who provided performance-enhancing drugs to players, told USA TODAY Sports. He plead guilty in 2007 to distributing steroids and money laundering, and was a key witness in the 409-page Mitchell report.

"I think baseball proved last year that it doesn't take much for baseball to suspend these guys. If Bosch comes up with more names, a lot of the guys won't fight it."

Anthony Bosch, former owner of the Biogenesis of America clinic, leaves the federal courthouse after bonding out, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Miami. Bosch was charged with conspiracy to distribute steroids. He is accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to several Major League baseball players. (AP Photo/LynneSladky)Lynne Sladky

While MLB has stated it doesn't anticipate hearing about steroid use from a new batch of players, there's a chance players who were mentioned in Bosch's records will surface again, but with enough evidence to support them being suspended from the league.

Bosch's arrest comes a year to the day after MLB handed down a dozen suspensions to players involved with Biogenesis, most notably Alex Rodriguez, whose suspension included the remainder of last season and the entire 2014 season. So how has Rodriguez's absence affected the Yankees as they fight for a spot in the playoffs?

Since the All-Star break, New York has gone 11-6 and enters Tuesday's action in third place in the American League East, five games behind the Orioles. However, the Yankees are just one game behind the Blue Jays for the AL's second wild-card spot and tied with Toronto in the loss column. It doesn't take much fancy number crunching to figure out that having had Rodriguez active this season likely would have been enough for New York, not Toronto, to be occupying that playoff spot at this point in the season.

The Biogenesis scandal has had an immeasurable impact on baseball, but it's far from the only meaningful steroid incident in the history of sports. Yahoo! Sports compiled a list of notable doping scandals that includes other baseball scandals as well as doping storylines from around the world.

McCutchen ailing after bean ball

Pirates star outfielder and 2013 MVP Andrew McCutchen will not be going on the disabled list as was previously reported and will instead be continually evaluated while on the active roster. McCutchen has been diagnosed with an "avulsion fracture involving the costochondral cartilage of the left 11th rib," which caused him to leave Sunday's game after hitting a game-tying sacrifice fly. The pain may or may not have been caused by a retaliatory pitch to the back late in a game against the Diamondbacks the day before:

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McCutchen said he couldn't be sure if the injury was a result of being hit but that he has "taken a million swings and have never felt anything in my side until Sunday." (ESPN)

"I'm not going to play today and I'm not going to play tomorrow but we'll see after that," McCutchen added Tuesday. "Two days ago, I couldn't even bend down to put my shoes on. Now, I can ... get dressed like normal, so I'm getting better."

McCutchen has never been on the disabled list and has played in all but 25 games (843 of 868 games) since he entered the major leagues in June 2009, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

The reigning NL MVP is hitting .311/.411/.536, ranking in the league's top five in all three slash categories and running third with a 167 OPS+ -- a slightly better line than the one with which he won the award last year. With 17 homers, he's closing in on last year's total of 21, and he's also stolen 17 bases in 18 attempts. His 5.2 WAR ranks fourth among NL position players, 0.4 behind injured league leader Troy Tulowitzki. ...

While that juggling may provide better than replacement level production, none of those moves will fully replace McCutchen's big bat, and without him, manager Clint Hurdle loses a fair bit of flexibility with regard to his lineups and in-game maneuvers.

Other injury notes

• Mets pitcher Matt Harvey took the next step in his recovery from Tommy John surgery, throwing a bullpen session off the mound. Harvey said the throwing session went well and reinforced the idea that he would like to pitch this season. (NJ.com)

Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Matt Garza, left, gets a pat from catcher Jonathan Lucroy after working the fourth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)Jeff Roberson

... Given the recovery timetables associated with oblique strains, it's quite possible that 30-year-old righty won't be back before September, particularly given that he doesn't exactly have a reputation as a fast healer. This marks the fourth straight year Garza has served a DL stint; he missed 17 games in 2011 with an elbow contusion, 69 in 2012 with a stress fracture in his elbow, 43 in 2013 with a lat strain, and now this.

"I don't know how far back it's gone," [manager John] Farrell said. "Whether it was the root of all the issues or the origin to the hamstring, again, low back and hamstring are all going to be interrelated so I don't know if this was the root of all of it."

In the 13 games over the weekend, the league averaged 2:51 per nine innings, down from 2:59 through July 31, even though the 13 weekend games averaged five more pitches. More importantly, the pace of the action improved and the players realized they could actually play baseball without dawdling, re-adjusting Velcro and kibitzing on the mound every time a runner reached second or a pitcher was in doubt about what pitch to throw next. The time of game is expected to continue to come down as the sample size grows larger and players continue to adjust their habits.

• There's trouble brewing in the City of Brotherly Love this week after comments from Phillies GM Ruben Amaro suggested the Phillies may not be able to contend in 2015 or 2016. Manager Ryne Sandberg wasn't privy to everything Amaro said but clearly intends to be in contention in the near future. (NJ.com)

• Long-time Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully recently announced he will be returning next year for his 66th season in the booth. Monday night, Scully again showed just one of the reasons he's so beloved around baseball: